Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions?

Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by ynniv on Friday June 27, 2008 @08:15PM (#230362)

I would like to see if they can melt steel using an open kerosene fire, but I hear they won't touch that because of the politics.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by Hexstream on Saturday June 28, 2008 @02:32AM (#230514)

Isn't there already hard, well-known scientific facts about the maximum temperature of kerosene and minimum melting temperature of steel?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by ynniv on Monday July 07, 2008 @10:12PM (#239437)

Yes there is, but that isn't what myths are about. Being able to calculate the terminal velocity of a penny didn't prevent MythBusters from doing a show on that. Busting myths is about revealing a truth in non-scientific ways so that the average person understands the absurdity of the myth.

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